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See's Candies pays the restaurant's rent. MiMe's name is taken from the nickname of the late Miriam Huggins, a leading community philanthropist and wife of See's Chief Executive Officer Chuck Huggins.

The problem is MiMe's never made money, and OICW has been making up the difference. In these tough economic times, when donations to OICW have declined, the organization can't continue to subsidize MiMe's.

The rumor was started by a Sacramento columnist (and you know how unreliable columnists can be), but it's not true. She hasn't applied for the job and isn't under consideration for it.

Despite a retraction in the Sacto newspaper, Manheimer continues to receive congratulatory phone calls and e-mails.

"I am not leaving for Sacramento and remain committed to the city of San Mateo," Manheimer said.

More on development: Quite a conversation has been started by the last couple of columns on Coastside development, elephants on the Cozzolino farm near Half Moon Bay and the rhetorical hard lines that characterize the debate over the environment.

Last week's Friday column quoted an e-mail from environmentalist Lennie Roberts that said Coastside residents have a legitimate concern about how growth and development threaten the area with environmental destruction.

That prompted a couple of e-mails extending the debate. I'm going to quote from them at length because they are at the heart of a debate that ought to be conducted on this topic.

Veteran developer T. Jack Foster, whose family built the city of the same name, wrote, "It is the language of debate which the environmentalists have captured. They refer to 'environmental destruction' versus Ôenvironmental protection.' Development does not destroy the environment, it changes it. Environment does not go away. One can debate whether the change is good or bad.

Today I attended a noon memorial service at the Strybing Arboretum in Golden Gate Park. I concluded that the development of that beautiful park from sand dunes was good."

Added Foster, "What used to be called 'vacant land' is now called 'open space.' Residential neighborhoods are called 'urban sprawl' by the environmentalists.

"The creation of livable, affordable housing has been shut down in San Mateo County, largely as a result of the environmental movement. The consequences are loss of teachers, nurses, police, firemen, waiters, clerks, and so on. It will only get worse."

And from Pacifica, where they have had their own recent battles over development, Paul Azevedo e-mailed in his thoughts:

"In Pacifica many years ago, I did the math and pointed out that this city was already 45 percent government-owned permanent open space. That didn't count streets and highways. As an eight-year member of Pacifica's Open Space Committee I've had occasion to closely review the Open Space Task Force Report prepared in the late 1980s. . . . Since I've been on the committee, hundreds more acres have been added to nontaxed Ôopen space' in the city of Pacifica.

"Mori's Point, which was already in productive use from the late 19th century (as a restaurant, hotel and brothel) has been artificially restored to virginal open space status, something that wasn't true for a century. Cattle Hill, 224 acres that might have been enjoyed for housing by hundreds of families, is now being used by no more than a few dozen agile folks each year for hiking purposes.

"The proportion of Pacifica's lands that generate no property taxes and provide the community little except viewsheds and watersheds has risen to more than 50 percent.

"At the rate we're going, in a couple of generations we'll be back to where we were in 1850, one adobe house on 8,926 acres," Azevedo wrote.